Today: Comey Calls Out Trump: 'Lies, Plain and Simple'

Jun 09, 2017 | 5:00 AM

Former FBI Director James B. Comey is sworn in during the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill. (Alex Brandon / Associated Press)

James B. Comey says he was fired over the Russia investigation, and that the reasons President Trump gave were "lies, plain and simple." I'm Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.

British Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election to strengthen her support ahead of negotiations to leave the European Union. Instead, she appears to have weakened it. Her Conservative Party lost its majority in Parliament, which is unlikely to entirely derail Brexit. But the political chaos could complicate matters.

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The Mysteries Buried in Hollyhock House

Frank Lloyd Wright was born 150 years ago this week, a milestone that has prompted the architectural world to reappraise his work. But as Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne observes, Wright's houses in Los Angeles from the early 1920s are underappreciated and often misunderstood. Hawthorne says they're "inscrutable and even crypt-like not by accident but by design." Why? To bury Wright's grief over the murder of a woman who changed his life.

FLASHBACK FRIDAY

On June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers and military equipment landed on the shores of Normandy, France, starting a massive operation that lasted more than two months and precipitated the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Here are front pages and photos from the Los Angeles Times' 1944 cov­er­age of D-day.

What could be more L.A. than yoga, mimosas and Comey-watching early on a Thursday morning? That was the scene at actor-writer-producer Kelly Perine's house in Los Feliz, where two TVs were tuned in (one to MSNBC and the other to Fox News, in a nod to bipartisanship) and many lava lamps were turned on.